1. NETCARE – Year 2

2. NETCARE - Year 2 New in this year (i.e. in addition to projects that started in Year 1): Successful completion of NETCARE-POLAR-summer aircraft campaign Successful completion of the 2014 NETCARE-AMUNDSEN ice breaker campaign Launch of project looking at modeling of black carbon with GEM-MACH Launch of project looking at snow composition at Alert, with source-receptor analysis Launch of project looking at marine microlayer hygroscopicity Ice nuclei (IN)measurements at Whistler and Alert Establishment of collaboration for deployment of FIRR instrument on POLAR6 in 2015 Website is now up and running, with a very successful blog of this summer’s fieldwork activities (about 50 individual viewers a day during the campaign) Public outreach activities have started, including a winning submission to AGU’s “Postcard from the field” photo/calendar competition (Megan Willis, Maurice Levasseur) Data archiving site and plan is now established

3. NETCARE - Scale of the network Number of funded co-investigators: 16 Number of universities: 10 Number of graduate students: 22 Number of postdocs: 3 Number of research assistants/associates: 4 (partial funding) Number of workshop attendees: 65 (about 50 last year) A very big thank you to scientists and managers from collaborating institutions (and I have probably forgotten some): Environment Canada Fisheries and Oceans Canada Canadian Space Agency Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) Arctic Net MPI for Chemistry at Mainz (Germany) Johannes Gutenberg University (Germany) LATMOS (France) University of Manitoba Laval University Leeds University SUNY Stony Brook Government scientists who are tightly connected to NETCARE science: Aliabadi, Cole, Huang, Gong, Koralev, Leaitch, Liggio, Macdonald, Miller, Schiller, Sharma, Staebler, Steiner, von Salzen, Wentzell, and more!

4. NETCARE – Goals for Year 2 workshop Introduction to new investigators Updates to all research projects, including the POLAR6 and Amundsen campaigns Time for informal interactions, especially on Tuesday Three breakout sessions on Tuesday, followed by reports from those groups: 1. Ice Clouds + Carbonaceous Aerosol (including Black Carbon) (Lead: Allan Bertram) 2. Ocean – Atmosphere Interactions (Lead: Maurice Levasseur) 3. Aerosol Processes and Radiative Forcing (Leads: Randall Martin and Knut von Salzen) Goals: - Assess progress towards reaching research goals. Are we on track? - Assess research plans. Do we need to adapt our plans? - Assess plans for knowledge transfer to the government? How do we document this? Output: 1 Powerpoint slide for each of the above goals, to be presented after the breakouts Knowledge transfer to the government (some ideas): 1. Scientific papers: Paragraph summary of each, emphasizing potential impacts 2. Archived data 3. Reports from the network: e.g. “Aerosol measurement/monitoring plan in the Arctic” e.g. “Improvements to representation of aerosol processes in models” e.g. “Model-measurement comparisons done in NETCARE” Need to position Arctic aerosol research for what happens after NETCARE funding expires in 2017